Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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